ONLINE LICENSE FIASCO Online licensing is a super huge FIASCO or PITA. When you get constantly kicked off saying that there is no longer a license available to save your work because we're shutting down to the latest message that Solidworks is not enabled for my ID & won't start is really starting the blood to boil.

I have bought a new laptop: HP Spectre x360 with intel UHD 620 graphics card and cannot find a suitable driver to install. I feel that this is the cause for the 'glitchyness' in the software as all other specs are upgrades to my old laptop which ran solidworks perfectly.

I recently got a Dell Precision 5530 for work with the NVIDIA Quadro P2000 graphics card and it is certified on SW here:http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html I downloaded the driver from the SW website because my driver didn't match. Now it matches but Solidworks Rx still doesn't recognize the system manufacturer or system model.

On Friday Solidworks kicked me out and I wasn't able to get back in for several hours. The same thing happened today at lunch. Support isn't able to tell me why. I am assuming their online license server is acting up again.

We have been troubleshooting this for a couple of days with our IT. Sometimes members of our team work remotely, however we do not always need SW so we share the license, passing it back and forth. Thus, people need to be able to check out the license while remote (checking it out permanently before leaving the office isn't an option).

Will transferring all of my data (downloads, programs, everything that came in the initial Solidworks download) from my OS (C:) drive to DATA (D:) drive on my computer cause any problems? would that be just copy/paste/move or would it be some special program that would update all the pathfiles in all references places ie. registry, startup icons etc.

We recently upgraded our SolidWorks PDM Standard 2017 SP2 vault to PDM Standard 2018 SP4, and everything server-side appeared to upgrade appropriately. However, on fresh installations of SW2018SP4 on the client-side, anytime a part or assembly is opened from the vault, the client-side crashes. This consistently happens to every machine.

What is the root cause of SolidWorks crashed and closed immediately while trying to sketch a model? See video. Does your system, including graphics card, meet all of Solidworks recommended requirements?

I started reading the 2018 installation document and under the upgrading the database server section is states "Cancel the SolidWorks installation manger" and run "SWPDMServersetup.exe". In the past I have always done it this way. Unfortunately "SWPDMServersetup.exe" is not on the download I got from the customer portal. Do we now need to use the installation manager for server product upgrades?

Do you mean like the PDM Add-In? This operates in the task-pane on the right-hand-side within the SolidWorks window. This exists and allows for checking-in/out files as well as changing state and viewing the PDM files contained within the open assembly.

Your favorite Solidworks error messages I wanted to start a new thread where we can collect some of the craziest messages that we get when working with solidworks. Please try to insert the image into the text using the insert image button.

We are preparing for the new academic year 2010-2011 and i started last week some testing with the new SolidWorks 2010-2011. For this test i installed windows 7 professional (without antivirus and firewall) and there i installed the license server. Activation

Thank you to everyone who has submitted enhancement ideas for this year’s SOLIDWORKS World Top Ten. As a reminder, the idea submission phase will be open until December 12th, 2018. If you have an idea for an enhancement, please submit it in theSOLIDWORKS World 2019 Top Ten List.Fellow SOLIDWORKS users can view, comment, and eventually vote on your idea.

Ever since I signed up on this website, I have been inundated with emails regarding replies to my forum posts. I do not want that. Jive Software Version: 2018.10.0.0_jx, revision: 20181023165129.f60c7ba.release_2018.10.0-jx

When I go to the screen and select "Promote me to SOLIDWORKS Administrator it doesn't work. I can't select the ckechboxes. Discuss with your VAR (the company who sold you SOLIDWORKS) to help you fix the issue OR update your customer portal account and make sure your information is correct here.